Bringing the Real World to Your Math Class Every Day
I’ve been spending the first 5-10 minutes of every 2-hour math class discussing graphs in...
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Category: Math for Elem Teachers
History of Numeration Systems
I just stumbled upon this great little video about Ancient Numeration Systems. It does not go...
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Collection of Math Games
To view the collections of Math Games, hover over the Games Menu, and go to one of the dropdown...
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Signed Numbers: Colored Counters in a “Sea of Zeros”
The “colored counter” method is an old tried-and-true method for teaching the concept...
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Prime Number Manipulatives
In this post we liken finding the prime number factorization to the nucleotides that make up a gene. Each prime number has a unique “prime fingerprint.”
Read MoreThe Projects Get BETTER
The second unit in Math for Elementary Teachers (MathET) is on numeration systems and operations on whole numbers. Again, the students had to complete a “learning project” for the unit. Some blogged, some mapped...
Read MoreMath Videos at the Sputnik Observatory
The Sputnik Observatory, is dedicated to providing a venue for viewing and sharing ideas and philosophies of contemporary culture. Jonathan Harris, who worked on the mindblowing sociological website We Feel Fine, is the site...
Read MoreWhat we’re doing with WolframAlpha
Originally, I started this post with the title “What I’m doing with Wolfram|Alpha” and then I revised it, because it’s not just me using Wolfram|Alpha. My students are using it too. Here are some of the...
Read MorePuzzle Broadcasts on the Math Factor
Is anyone in the mood for a good math puzzle? The Math Factor is a well-established resource of just that. University of Arkansas professor, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and radio journalist, Kyle Kellams, have been broadcasting...
Read MoreAlgebra Balance Scales
There are lots of “games” out there about solving equations, but I haven’t found a single one that is more than algebra homework dressed up with pretty packaging. The “games” are all of the same...
Read MoreNew Math: A Formula for Everything
I think that I will have to start (or end?) every class session next fall with one of these fabulous formulas from New Math. Some of them are obvious (once you see them) and some of them just have me laughing out loud because of...
Read MoreFibonacci Sequence in Siftables
“We’re on the cusp of this new generation of tools for interacting with digital media that are going to bring information into our world on our terms.” – David Merrill Jump to 2:20 to see the math example...
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